Supply Chain Operations Consulting Leader Western Europe

Wipro’s Consulting organisation is seeking a Supply Chain Operations Consulting Leader Western Europe to help drive business transformation across the operational supply chain.

Wipro’s Digital Business Consulting group helps clients across industries strategize, transform, and re-imagine their business and operating models.

Job Description

We are building a modern Wipro.

We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with bold ambitions and are looking for people inspired by reinvention—of themselves, their careers, and their skills.

Background

The Supply Chain & Operations Consulting practice is part of Wipro’s Consulting organisation and covers business consulting and business transformation across the operational supply chain. Specific elements include:

• Supply chain: sourcing, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and distribution
• Portfolio: product development, product life-cycle management, portfolio segmentation
• Customer: order management, customer segmentation, customer pricing and profitability

Through innovative data-driven insights and rapid prototyping, the team enables clients to improve operations and associated business performance. Example results include:

• Reducing inventories and working capital across the value chain
• Reducing lead-times and lead-time variations
• Improving customer service level and fulfilment
• Reducing cost to serve
• Improving margin and profitability
• Increasing top-line revenue

Engagements combine deep data insights and industry-leading subject matter expertise to create impactful business transformation solutions through data-driven insights, industry thinking, and high-impact consulting execution.

Candidate profile

The ideal candidate profile includes:

• 10 years of visible impact senior-level Management Consulting experience across the operational value chain in several industries
• Proven track record of business consulting solution design and consulting asset application
• Proven track record of consulting sale and delivery leadership
• Highly innovative and impact-oriented thinking in both business operating model transformation and technology
• Deeply conversant with today’s technology disruptors such as GenAI and Agentic AI
• Results-driven team player able to inspire a highly diverse global team

The objectives of this role are business development and growth, while also requiring direct billable time on specific client engagements to ensure market intimacy and direct industry visibility.

Who we are looking for

Sell & Deliver

• Big picture orientation, conceiving effective strategies to drive growth
• Entrepreneurial drive with a can-do attitude and pragmatic approach
• Ability to construct presentation slides that effectively convey the intended message and meet a high visual standard, along with the ability to present information effectively to an audience
• Outstanding leadership, communication, relationship-building and networking skills across clients, ecosystem partners and the internal organisation
• Success in generating consulting business from new and existing accounts and capability to drive customer relationships into multimillion-dollar engagements
• Proven track record of winning transformational and strategic consulting sales, with strong focus on account planning, business development strategies, participation in large integrated deals, governance, delivery and operational management
• Delivery and program expertise with experience handling multi-shore consulting projects with distributed teams delivering sustainable customer value
• Ability to comprehend complex scenarios and propose effective implementation plans and solutions to tackle challenges

Driving Transformation

• Ability to probe customers, engage in conversations to uncover underlying problems, and shape challenges into structured problem statements
• Significant transformation proposition definition and engagement shaping using core and disruptive technologies to solve business problems for tangible business benefits at large enterprise clients
• Ability to act as a champion for transformation and help reposition Wipro as a strategic partner to accelerate and sustain customer value
• Influential internal change agent with gravitas and a business-building mindset
• Ability to drive strategic execution, manage change, build relationships with clients and partners, motivate teams and achieve results
• Good understanding of IT and digital technology, including its application to the supply chain industry, with ownership in solution incubation and IP creation

Talent Management

• Creative, collaborative and motivating consulting leader who can focus diverse teams on common outcomes and goals
• Experience nurturing, developing and mentoring top talent into future consulting business leaders
• Execution of organizational people strategy with strong collaboration from HR and Recruitment leads
• Proactively seeks opportunities to attract top diverse talent at all levels

Thought Leadership

• Strong local domain knowledge and experience developing and delivering strategic business and transformative initiatives with significant focus on Digital and Data within the Consumer industry
• Brings an informed perspective on key issues facing insurers across the US region and can demonstrate how this has been leveraged collaboratively to develop points of view and propositions
• Ability to converse with industry leaders and analysts on trends within the European market
• Proactively proposes solutions and investment decisions, supported by published artifacts, industry speakerships and analyst interactions
• Creates internal content and offerings, including publications, blogs and whitepapers
• Uses social media effectively to enhance Wipro brand presence

About Wipro Consulting

Wipro Consulting helps clients achieve their strategies by leveraging industry-wide experience, deep technology expertise and a comprehensive portfolio of services combined with an agile and flexible engagement model. The team harnesses new and emerging technologies to maximize speed to impact while bringing a deep understanding of legacy operations sustainability.